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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Welcome to
my stop on the Release Day Blast, presented by Tasty Book Tours, for To Have and To Hold by Lauren Layne. Please leave a comment or question for Lauren
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Sex and the City meets The Wedding Planner in The Wedding Belles!

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD

The Wedding Belles #1

Lauren Layne

Releasing July 26th, 2016

Pocket Books

Sex and
the City meets The
Wedding Planner in The Wedding Belles, her sizzling brand new
contemporary romance series about three ambitious wedding planners who can make
any bride’s dream come true…but their own.

Discovering her fiancé is an
international conman just moments before they exchange vows devastates
celebrity wedding planner Brooke Burke’s business—and breaks her heart. Now a
pariah in Los Angeles, she seeks a fresh start in New York City and thinks
she’s found it with her first bridal client, a sweet, if slightly spoiled,
hotel heiress. Then she meets the uptight businessman who’s holding the purse
springs.

Seth Tyler wishes he could write a
blank check and be done with his sister’s fancy-pants wedding. Unfortunately,
micromanaging the event is his only chance at proving Maya’s fiancé is a liar.
Standing directly in his way is the stunning blonde wedding planner whose
practiced smiles and sassy comebacks both irritate and arouse him. He needs
Brooke’s help. But can he persuade a wedding planner on a comeback mission to unplan
a wedding? And more importantly, how will he convince her that the wedding she
should be planning…is theirs?

Hold on. Back up. Back all the way up. What
do you mean you’re getting married?”

It was eleven p.m. on a Wednesday, and Seth
Tyler was exactly where he always was these days: behind his expansive mahogany
desk at the Tyler Hotel Group, suit jacket slung over the back of his ergonomic
chair, tie begging to be undone, impeccably pressed white shirt cuffed at the
wrists.

He raked a hand through his thick light
brown hair in frustration and fixed his younger sister with his best
no-nonsense glare, an approximation—like everything else he seemed to do
lately—of his deceased father.

When Seth's father dropped dead of a heart
attack eight months ago, Seth had thought the hardest part about his father’s
passing—other than the mourning, of course—would be taking over the family
company.

Sure, Seth had been groomed for the role. He’d
wanted the president and CEO title.

He’d always wanted it.

Eventually.

But not yet, for God’s sake.

Seth had no problem admitting that he was a
perfectionist, and he’d been bound and determined to take over the family
company his way. The right way.

And the right way, as Seth had determined
it, was spending at least a year shadowing each of the senior-level Tyler Hotel
Group executives. Seth had wanted to learn every possible detail, every in and
out of the business, before even thinking about taking over the reins of the
Fortune 500 company.

But his father’s heart had had other plans.
Mainly, up and quitting during a routine round of golf. And so, quietly, per
his father’s wishes, Seth had become CEO two years ahead of schedule.

Not a day passed that Seth didn’t wish his
father was still with him, but in truth, taking his place at the head of the
boardroom table had been easier than Seth had anticipated. The investors hadn’t
freaked out. The executive team hadn’t left in mass exodus. Even Hank’s longtime
assistant, Etta, had stuck around, seemingly content to call Seth boss even as
she busted his balls about not eating enough vegetables, getting enough sleep,
or getting his hair cut.

But if taking over the family company was
easier than Seth had expected, there was one ramification of Hank Tyler’s death
that Seth hadn’t been in the least prepared for:

A wedding.

Maya Tyler inhaled a long, patient breath,
as though preparing to deal with a difficult child. “Well see, marriage, Seth,
is when two people fall in love and decide to spend the rest of their lives—”

“Yes, I’m aware of how marriage works,” Seth
interrupted. Although, not as aware as well as he’d like, as it turned out. He
wouldn’t be getting any firsthand knowledge of how marriage worked any time soon.

Maya bit her lip. “I’m sorry. I didn't mean
to remind you of Nadia.”

Seth glanced down at his desk to avoid his
sister’s too-perceptive gaze. She wasn’t wrong. He’d gotten to the point where
he could go most days without thinking of his ex, but he hadn’t yet figured out
how to think about marriage without hearing the incredulous laugh she’d let out
when he’d gone on one knee and showed her the ring he’d spent months picking
out.

“Can we not?” he said curtly.

“Don’t get pissed. It’s a wedding. You’re supposed
to be happy.”

“I’m not pissed; I’m just surprised.”

That was an understatement. Seth had not
seen this coming, and for a man who exercised precision in all things, he
couldn’t say he was enjoying the shock value of Maya’s announcement. Especially
not on the heels of his father’s death. A death that everyone but Seth had seen
coming, because Seth had been the lone outsider on the knowledge that was his
father’s longtime heart condition.

Apparently, Hank had considered his only son
a control freak—had known that Seth would have stopped at nothing to try to
halt death in its tracks.

His father had been, well, right. It was
hard to admit, but if Seth had known about his father’s condition, he’d have
devoted every waking hour to researching experimental treatment and the best
doctors.

Hank Tyler hadn’t wanted that for his final
months. Not for himself or for Seth.

Still, Seth resented not having the choice.
Resented his father nearly as much as he missed him.

But he’d put that behind him. Mostly.

Hank was gone, and Maya was still here. Maya
was all he had.

He had known she was dating a new guy—Neil
something or other. But Seth hadn’t thought a thing about it. Maya had whipped
through a constant string of casual boyfriends since high school, and other
than a two-year relationship in college, they had never been serious.

And it certainly hadn’t gotten close to
marriage.

What’s worse, Seth hadn’t even met this man
that was apparently to be his brother-in-law.

But none of this would have mattered, not
really, if Seth’s instincts hadn’t been buzzing that something was amiss with
the way this was all going down. Something was off. He knew it down to his gut.

“How long have you been seeing this guy?” he
asked.

Maya slumped back in the plush chair facing
Seth’s desk with a groan. “Don’t do this. I knew you were going to do this.”

He frowned. “Do what?”

“The big brother thing,” she said.

“Hard not to, what with me being six years
older and all,” Seth said.

He didn’t add that he was doubly obligated
to be protective given Hank’s death just months earlier. Maya had definitely
been Daddy’s Little Princess. She still got tears in her eyes every time their
father’s name was mentioned.

Maya leaned forward, her pale blue eyes much
like his own, although her blond hair was lighter than his, thanks to her
frequent trips to the salon.

Seth bit his tongue to stop from saying that
he bet Maya was exactly the type of girl that guys like Neil dreamed about,
too. Young, pretty . . . and filthy rich.

Or so Neil likely thought.

Lauren lives in New York City with her husband (who was her high school sweetheart--cute, right?!) and plus-sized Pomeranian.

Five years ago, she ditched her corporate career in Seattle to pursue a full-time writing career in Manhattan.

She writes smart romantic comedies with just enough sexy-times to make your mother blush, and in her ideal world, every stiletto-wearing, Kate Spade wielding woman would carry a Kindle stocked with Lauren Layne books.

When not bringing The Sexy, she likes to blog about her Instagram addiction, and why mean girls are the worst.

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